Thursday, May 3, 2018 – edition no. 3039

* Peppa Pig latest victim of China censors * Mass drives soaring gaming revenues * Le French pianists open May festival * Real Madrid adds to its European dominance   DOWNLOAD

Gaming revenue jumps 27.6 pct in April, beats forecast

Macau gambling revenue surged 27.6 percent last month and beat analyst forecasts, helped by solid demand from mainland Chinese punters, official data showed today (Tuesday). It's the 21st month of consecutive

Football | Benfica de Macau hoping to surprise in Taiwan

LOCAL football club Benfica de Macau is hoping to make a “surprise” in its visit to Taiwan tomorrow for game five of six of the group stage

Briefs | Sulu Sou urges reclamation of Nam Van lands

School building works suspected of violating relics protection law The ongoing engineering works at the Colégio Mateus Ricci is reportedly suspected of violating laws concerning

Labor Day | Cloee Chao says demonstrator numbers on the decline

Cloee Chao, a frequent organizer and leader of protests held across the city, said she has noticed a decline in the number of participants in demonstrations.

Education | Majority of university students disappointed by course content

A survey conducted by the Macau Youth Research Association and the General Association of Chinese Students-Macau has found that nearly 57 percent of Macau’s university students feel the content

Gaming | April GGR growth likely to top 20 percent

Analysts say they are expecting a healthy posting for April’s gross gaming revenues, which are due to be April is often the weakest among the

Tourism | Package tour visitor numbers increase in March

Visitors on package tours rose by 12.4 percent year- on-year to 730,000 in March 2018, with a month-to-month increase of 19.3 percent, the Statistics

Typhoon drill criticized for being unrealistic

The vice president of the Macau General Union of Neighborhood Association (UGAMM), Cheong Lai Zhen, criticized the government’s latest typhoon drill for being unrealistic, according to a

MGTO proposes licensing by location

THE Macao Government Tourism Office (MGTO) has confirmed that it has submitted a proposal to the Legal Affairs Bureau (DSAJ) outlining the scope of responsibility of

Crime | Luxury cars at the root of turmoil

Two unrelated cases involving the acquisition of luxury vehicles have been reported by the Judiciary Police (PJ) as being the cause of turmoil in the city, a

Corporate Bits | Wynn presents springtime menus

From now till May 31, SW Steakhouse, Mizumi and Andrea’s at Wynn Palace Cotai, together with Wing Lei at Wynn Macau will be presenting a selection

Gaming | Ocean Resort owner reveals plans for former Revel casino

Bruce Deifik gets it. He has carefully studied what went wrong at Atlantic City’s former Revel casino and is fixing it before he reopens the star-crossed

Xiaomi’s USD10b IPO risks a cash crunch in Hong Kong

Hosting what’s shaping up to be the world’s biggest initial public offering of 2018 may be a double-edged sword for Hong Kong. Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi

Trade War | Trump’s dispute with China unsettle farming in US, ranching backers

Montana rancher Fred Wacker had thousands of head of cattle fattening up along the Yellowstone River for export to China when President Donald Trump picked a trade

Factory activity eases, service sector gains in April

Chinese factory growth has slowed slightly, according to a monthly survey released yesterday that showed activity in the world’s No. 2 economy holding up despite

Chinese foreign minister to visit North Korea this week

The foreign minister of North Korea’s chief ally China will visit Pyongyang this week following the historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas. The

Q&A | Hui Cheng: JD.’s Silicon Valley Research Center – JD.com looks to Silicon Valley center for innovation

Self-driving delivery vehicles that are polite to pedestrians? Faster and more precise robotic arms? JD.com, the largest challenger to Alibaba’s e-commerce empire in China, is

Australia | Court set to rule on whether cardinal stands trial

The most senior Vatican official to be charged in the Catholic Church sex abuse crisis will return to an Australian court today to learn whether he must

Japan | Inmate recaptured three weeks after escape, island manhunt

A convicted thief was recaptured yesterday three weeks after a rare escape from a Japanese prison and an island manhunt he may have eluded by swimming. Tatsuma

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